Last week, Palestinian activist Muhammad Kanaaneh was due to address Tel Aviv University students at an event marking #LandDay, a commemoration of the bloody state repression of anti-land expropriation protests in 1976. However, following pressure by right-wing #Zionist activists, university authorities stepped in to ban Kanaaneh from delivering his speech on campus. The opposition to Kanaanehs lecture, including from Members of the Knesset, was on the basis that he was a so-called convicted terrorist, apparently jailed for involvement with or passing on information to Hezbolllah. But few bothered to examine the claims being made about Kanaaneh, or look beyond the shouts of terrorist. To do so would be to reveal another side to this affair, beyond the repression of Palestinian political activism at Israeli academic institutions. https://middleeastmonitor/articles/debate/10866-the-real-delegitimisation-apartheid-israel-targets-palestinian-citizens-political-activism
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:25:00 +0000
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